After a first meeting with Juan Ramon De las Cuevas, our European expert in Brussels on July 11, in which we shared the outline of the project and defined the tools that the expert will use, another visit was scheduled for October in Paris.

Launched by the Ministries of Ecology and Housing in October 2015, the Call for Proposals "Industrial Demonstrators for the Sustainable City" (DIVD in French) is dedicated to the emergence of highly innovative urban projects that aim to become a showcase for French excellence in sustainable cities. It is part of the ecological and energy transition for green growth.

On September 18th, more than 750 employees of the Siaci Saint Honoré company have moved to their new offices on the Mstislav Rostropovich street. Being the first ones to arrive in the neighborhood, they are occupying the Season building.

On September 30th 2017, “Tast’in Fives” project had the pleasure to organize a “Kickoff event”. After a lot of collective thinking between project partners and bilateral meetings with local NGO’s, it was time to make the project more official to the local public.

The Fossil-free Energy Districts project, FED, was presented in Brussels on 7 November. The FED project will form the framework for testing new innovative solutions for creating a fossil-free society and for reducing energy use. Incentives and challenges were discussed at a European level.

After an initial tender phase of 4 months the City of Milan, as urban authority for the UIA OpenAgri project, will launch in Jan 2018 an Urban Agriculture Lab within the area of Cascina Nosedo, the future Open Innovation Hub of this urban metropolitan fringe.